Re: report: ISS minor debris strike

I can imagine Russian Space Forces disclosing that they saw a 1 cm
object closing in on ISS, just to create the illusion that their
tracking system is worth anything.

"We saw that!"



"Roger Balettie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> "sam grey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > From reading the news reports on CNN and such . . . it's hard to
> > make it out exactly, because the language used is a bit
> > ambiguous, but it sounds as if they knew that the piece of space
> > junk was there, and that it was on a collision course BEFORE it
> > struck.
> 
> "They", in this case, is neither NASA nor USSPACECOMMAND -- according to the
> report.  "They" are the "Russian Space Forces" and a source spoke under
> anonymity.
> 
> Until I hear a more reliable source confirming that, I wouldn't get upset
> about it.
> 
> Roger